Judith Purkarthofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Purkarthofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Purkarthofer |
| SIGNATURE | PURKARTHOFER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2650-2274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Registers in family language policy? Self-evaluations of multilingual family registers in a longitudinal perspective
More often than not, multilingual families are met with expectations concerning their language use and policies, from society at large, from educational institutions and from their different communities. However, families also hold opinions about their own languages, their language use and how this corresponds to ideologies, aims and expectations. This contribution discusses language as situated practice along with language ideologies, as biograp…
Ingrid Piller, Donna Burotac, Emmily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari, & Vera Williams Tetteh, Life in a new language New York
in press
Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi. Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community By Ruth Singer (2023) London
The prestige and perceived value of home languages. Insights from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers’ own perceptions and experiences of linguistic discrimination
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers conducted in Germany. Data were collected using a questionnaire instrument launched in 2021. To our knowledge, this is the first enquiry into multilinguals’ own perception of their spoken languages in Germany. The core research questions addressed in this paper are (1) whether some languages are perceived as more valuable or prestigious than others by their speakers an…
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’
Connections between linguistic heterogeneity, educational choices and (family) biographies are complex and ever shifting. With this paper, my aim is to explore the question how social spaces are constructed by multilingual families in migration societies and how they situate social spaces ‘in between’, thereby challenging both binary and national logics and creating third spaces. Especially in view of national educational institutions, family dec…
Pirate Radio and Its Role in the Establishment of Community Radio. Poland, Austria and Hungary – A Comparison
In this article, we discuss the role that pirate radio played in a debate regarding the community-oriented sector of broadcasting and in incorporating the sector into the legal system. We concentrate on the period of the transformation from state monopolies to media pluralism in Poland, Austria and Hungary, which took place in the late 1980s and the 1990s. A qualitative content analysis is performed on legal texts and media coverage to identify d…
Discourses between the Public and the Private
Raising a child is a challenging venture, regardless of where one lives in the world. Most children are raised in their families; however, many states have welfare services if the child’s well-being is at stake. Scandinavian countries follow a rather strict policy in placing the child’s individual rights above those of the family, and Norway has child welfare legislation that applies to all children in the country, regardless of their status, nat…
Community media’s role in changing centre–periphery relations through participatory, not-for-profit journalism
Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards the recognition of participatory, not-for-profit journalism, more diverse discourses and enhanced participation, especially in relation to minorities. …
Navigating partially shared linguistic repertoires
The aim of the paper is to understand how German speakers living in Norway with their families navigate partially shared repertoires. Using the notion of legitimate peripheral participation, I aim to analyse how family members work towards shared repertoires in the family or account for only partially shared linguistic and cultural repertoires within the family and wider social contexts. This speaker-centred research draws on interviews and multi…
Learning language regimes
Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings-a Slovene-German bilingual school in Austria and an Isthmus Zapotec (Indigenous) language and art workshop in Mexico. We examine how c…
Building expectations
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The article examines the language expectations of three couples with different language backgrounds – each expecting their first child. The study addresses three related questions: In what ways are linguistic resources imagined by the future parents? What social spaces and relations do they envision themselves and their child moving in, and how is this relevant for their family language policy? Desi…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
Children’s drawings as part of School Language Profiles
Child language development occurs in a given environment, complete with explicit and implicit regulations, intervening actors with their coherent or contradictory intentions, and specific resources for speakers. The main research question of this contribution is: What can drawings as parts of School Language Profiles tell us about the multilingual environments of bilingual families and schools? The analytical framework of spatial and language pra…
And all of a sudden, it became my rescue’
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and meta-agentive discourse. Reports of speakers’ lived language experience and their experiences with family language policies are analysed to demonstrate how speakers use different approaches to realise agency in their narratives. D…
Bilingual teaching for multilingual students? Innovative dual-medium models in Slovene-German schools in Austria
The prestige and perceived value of home languages. Insights from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers’ own perceptions and experiences of linguistic discrimination
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers conducted in Germany. Data were collected using a questionnaire instrument launched in 2021. To our knowledge, this is the first enquiry into multilinguals’ own perception of their spoken languages in Germany. The core research questions addressed in this paper are (1) whether some languages are perceived as more valuable or prestigious than others by their speakers an…
And all of a sudden, it became my rescue’
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and meta-agentive discourse. Reports of speakers’ lived language experience and their experiences with family language policies are analysed to demonstrate how speakers use different approaches to realise agency in their narratives. D…
Learning language regimes
Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings-a Slovene-German bilingual school in Austria and an Isthmus Zapotec (Indigenous) language and art workshop in Mexico. We examine how c…
Navigating partially shared linguistic repertoires
The aim of the paper is to understand how German speakers living in Norway with their families navigate partially shared repertoires. Using the notion of legitimate peripheral participation, I aim to analyse how family members work towards shared repertoires in the family or account for only partially shared linguistic and cultural repertoires within the family and wider social contexts. This speaker-centred research draws on interviews and multi…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
Community media’s role in changing centre–periphery relations through participatory, not-for-profit journalism
Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards the recognition of participatory, not-for-profit journalism, more diverse discourses and enhanced participation, especially in relation to minorities. …
Bilingual teaching for multilingual students? Innovative dual-medium models in Slovene-German schools in Austria
Bilingual teaching for multilingual students? Innovative dual-medium models in Slovene-German schools in Austria
Children’s drawings as part of School Language Profiles
Child language development occurs in a given environment, complete with explicit and implicit regulations, intervening actors with their coherent or contradictory intentions, and specific resources for speakers. The main research question of this contribution is: What can drawings as parts of School Language Profiles tell us about the multilingual environments of bilingual families and schools? The analytical framework of spatial and language pra…
And all of a sudden, it became my rescue’
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and meta-agentive discourse. Reports of speakers’ lived language experience and their experiences with family language policies are analysed to demonstrate how speakers use different approaches to realise agency in their narratives. D…
Building expectations
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The article examines the language expectations of three couples with different language backgrounds – each expecting their first child. The study addresses three related questions: In what ways are linguistic resources imagined by the future parents? What social spaces and relations do they envision themselves and their child moving in, and how is this relevant for their family language policy? Desi…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
Learning language regimes
Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings-a Slovene-German bilingual school in Austria and an Isthmus Zapotec (Indigenous) language and art workshop in Mexico. We examine how c…
Community media’s role in changing centre–periphery relations through participatory, not-for-profit journalism
Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards the recognition of participatory, not-for-profit journalism, more diverse discourses and enhanced participation, especially in relation to minorities. …
Navigating partially shared linguistic repertoires
The aim of the paper is to understand how German speakers living in Norway with their families navigate partially shared repertoires. Using the notion of legitimate peripheral participation, I aim to analyse how family members work towards shared repertoires in the family or account for only partially shared linguistic and cultural repertoires within the family and wider social contexts. This speaker-centred research draws on interviews and multi…
Discourses between the Public and the Private
Raising a child is a challenging venture, regardless of where one lives in the world. Most children are raised in their families; however, many states have welfare services if the child’s well-being is at stake. Scandinavian countries follow a rather strict policy in placing the child’s individual rights above those of the family, and Norway has child welfare legislation that applies to all children in the country, regardless of their status, nat…
Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’
Connections between linguistic heterogeneity, educational choices and (family) biographies are complex and ever shifting. With this paper, my aim is to explore the question how social spaces are constructed by multilingual families in migration societies and how they situate social spaces ‘in between’, thereby challenging both binary and national logics and creating third spaces. Especially in view of national educational institutions, family dec…
Pirate Radio and Its Role in the Establishment of Community Radio. Poland, Austria and Hungary – A Comparison
In this article, we discuss the role that pirate radio played in a debate regarding the community-oriented sector of broadcasting and in incorporating the sector into the legal system. We concentrate on the period of the transformation from state monopolies to media pluralism in Poland, Austria and Hungary, which took place in the late 1980s and the 1990s. A qualitative content analysis is performed on legal texts and media coverage to identify d…
Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi. Cultivating Linguistic Diversity in an Australian Community By Ruth Singer (2023) London
The prestige and perceived value of home languages. Insights from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers’ own perceptions and experiences of linguistic discrimination
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers conducted in Germany. Data were collected using a questionnaire instrument launched in 2021. To our knowledge, this is the first enquiry into multilinguals’ own perception of their spoken languages in Germany. The core research questions addressed in this paper are (1) whether some languages are perceived as more valuable or prestigious than others by their speakers an…
Registers in family language policy? Self-evaluations of multilingual family registers in a longitudinal perspective
More often than not, multilingual families are met with expectations concerning their language use and policies, from society at large, from educational institutions and from their different communities. However, families also hold opinions about their own languages, their language use and how this corresponds to ideologies, aims and expectations. This contribution discusses language as situated practice along with language ideologies, as biograp…
Ingrid Piller, Donna Burotac, Emmily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi-Tabari, & Vera Williams Tetteh, Life in a new language New York
in press
Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · German (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works)